more austin

Iconic Austin: a beautiful orange single-speed city bike with matching rack and fenders, Wheatsville Co-op, Godzilla, the UT tower and too many cars. This is the view from the parking lot of Boomerangs, where we had Australian meat pies for lunch. Afterward we went to Fiddler's Green to look for music and to Bananarchy for chocolate-covered frozen bananas. 103 degrees today.


Yeah, Austin's like that.

my back fence

everywhere

mayfield park and laguna gloria

Sarah introduced us to a couple new places downtown today.

bw peacock

cloudweed

turtle and stuff

pulled the e-reader trigger

It took me about 30 seconds to go ahead and order the new Kindle 3 today. I'd been mulling over an e-reader for a while; I looked at the Nook last weekend but the touchscreen interface didn't do it for me. I like what Amazon has done with this new one - glad they didn't muck it up with a touch screen or other add-ons.

Woot!

early color photos

Go look at these depression-era color photos. I like #43. (h/t dangerousmeta)

sunflowers

heat index

South side of the North San Gabriel this morning. The is the time of year when every hiker looks like Pigpen from Peanuts, but it's not a cloud of dirt, it's grasshoppers.

sand dollars

Upon our kitchen windowsill. (I catch myself daydreaming about CA and WA beaches a lot lately.)

day off

Took a badly needed day off today and went for a ride. (A recent conversation: Me - "I wish I could get it together." Her - "Me too.")